Re: text suggested by ADs

[avri at psg.com]

On 7 maj 2005, at 21.32, Dave Crocker wrote:

> Let me try the simplest summary possible:
>
>    If someone has the authority to block the long-term work of a group 
> of IETF
> participants, they have an *obligation* to take their concerns 
> directly to
> those participants and engage in a direct process to resolve it.
>
> Authority always comes with responsibility.  In this case it should 
> simply be
> that the authority to block a group has a responsibility to interact 
> with that
> group.
>
> Directly.


Seems eminently reasonable to me.
Even seems practical not to mention good professional etiquette.

I find it hard to understand why an AD would not behave this way 
(though I know it is not the common practice).

I have always felt that authority entailed obligations and 
responsibility.  And the more power a position has the more constrained 
the holder of that position should be in his or her behavior.

a.


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